Flourless Chocolate Cake

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Title: Flourless Chocolate Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 1 servings

14 oz Baking chocolate; preferably
Ghiradelli brand
14 tb Unsalted butter
1 1/2 c Sugar
10 Eggs; separated
1 tb Grand marnier
1 tb Vanilla extract

Butter and flour a 12" springform pan*. Break the
chocolate into chunks and put in the top of a double boiler
along with the butter. Melt over simmering water, stirring
occasionally. Stir in 1 1/4 cups sugar into the melted
chocolate and butter mixture and continue heating until the
sugar is dissolved. Beat the egg yolks in a separate bowl.
Beat some of the hot chocolate mixture into the yolks, then
return all the mixture to the sauce pan. Cook over
simmering water, stirring constantly, until slightly
thickened; then stir in the Grand Marnier and vanilla.
Beat the egg whites until they stand in soft peaks when the
beater or whisk is removed. Continue beating, gradually
adding the remaining 1/4 cup sugar until the whites stand
upright in stiff peaks when beater is removed. Fold egg
whites and chocolate mixture together carefully. Pour the
mixture into the prepared pan. Bake for 3 hours at 250.
Remove from the oven. Let cool at room temperature, cover
and chill.
This cake is great served with a creme anglaise. *For
Passover you can use matzoh meal in place of flour.

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